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Monday, May 28th, 2012

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Gardner attack on Obama energy policy draws fast fact-check blast from Shaffer

By | 03.06.12 | 3:31 pm

Colorado Congressman Cory Gardner, like many Republicans this week, took aim at President Obama over gas prices. He dismissed the president’s proposal to tap national oil and gas reserves as an election-year political fix and called instead for more oil and gas drilling on federal lands. But Gardner’s proposal drew a swift fact-check rebuttal from his Fourth District Democratic opponent, Senate President Brandon Shaffer, who said it was Gardner who was playing politics.

DeGette to Congress on birth control: ‘This is 2012, not the Dark Ages’

By | 02.29.12 | 2:13 pm

Colorado First District Congresswoman Diana DeGette launched her “Women’s Health Wednesdays” series on the floor of the House today with a speech celebrating the beneficial nature of birth control as both family planning and preventive health tool. “I would like to kick off this first Women’s Health Wednesday by reminding everyone this is 2012, not the Dark Ages,” she said.

Pro-Choice DeGette launches ‘Women’s Health Wednesday’ in Congress

By | 02.29.12 | 9:45 am

In response to the slew of anti-abortion bills introduced on Capitol Hill this year, Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette has launched “Women’s Health Wednesday,” where beginning today House members will deliver rapid-fire one-minute speeches exploring the issue on the floor of the chamber.

Bennet, Pena named co-chairs of Obama campaign

By | 02.22.12 | 4:28 pm

The Obama campaign announced today that Colorado Senator Michael Bennet and former Denver Mayor and Transportation Secretary Federico Pena have been named national co-chairs, along with 33 other people.

Bennet calls for greater transparency in election spending

By | 02.22.12 | 9:49 am

Voters deserve to know who is paying for political advertisements, Colorado Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and 10 other senators wrote Tuesday in a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

Coffman, Lamborn cosponsor bill to make English the official language of U.S.

By | 02.16.12 | 7:01 am

Colorado Republican Congressmen Mike Coffman (CD-6) and Doug Lamborn (CD-5) have joined a hundred of their colleagues this year in sponsoring a bill to make English the official language of the United States.

Colorado Rep. Polis leads House effort to reform No Child Left Behind

By | 02.09.12 | 11:59 am

On the heels of news that the Obama administration has granted Colorado and 10 other states a waiver from the controversial requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind education law, Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis introduced a House version of the Growth to Excellence Act (H.R. 3845) written by Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall. The bill would rework No Child Left Behind by granting greater authority to the states to develop student achievement and school accountability policies.

Colorado scores No Child Left Behind waiver

By | 02.09.12 | 8:59 am

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today applauded the Obama administration decision to grant Colorado schools a waiver from the regulatory requirements of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law. A former superintendent of the Denver Public School system, Bennet has long railed against the law as well-intended but comically flawed, the “biggest federal overreach ever in domestic policy,” he said in a Senate floor speech last year.

Rep. DeGette ‘still concerned about how Komen is making its funding decisions’

By | 02.03.12 | 3:38 pm

Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette today lauded the announcement made by breast cancer foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure that it planned to rework new policies that prevented it from funding Planned Parenthood. DeGette told the Colorado Independent that the dramatic turnaround, while good news, served mostly to raise wider questions about whether or not the blockbuster charity organization was basing its health-care funding decisions on solid scientific findings.

Udall applauds Denver Komen affiliate for standing by Planned Parenthood

By | 02.02.12 | 5:36 pm

At the end of a day that saw the mediasphere light up with reactions to news that juggernaut breast cancer foundation Susan G. Komen for the Cure aimed to end its financial support of Planned Parenthood, Senator Mark Udall praised Komen’s Denver affiliate for standing by Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.

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